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Vallishree Chandra Partner

Valli is part of the Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions and Venture Capital practice of the Firm and is based in Bengaluru.

She has over 10 years of experience and specializes in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions involving intricate structures and multiple stakeholders. She advises on deals across a range of industry sectors, such as fintech, AI, SaaS, e-commerce, FMCG, real estate, energy and infrastructure, manufacturing, defence, agritech, healthcare and pharma, etc. and across jurisdictions such as India, USA, UK, Europe, and Singapore. She has been involved in structuring various domestic and cross-border transactions and advises clients on various complex mergers and acquisitions, growth capital and early-stage investments, general corporate advisory, transactional matters, and shareholder disputes.

Valli was previously Counsel at Trilegal and has completed her BA.LLB (Hons) from National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata.

Select Professional Experience

Jungle Ventures on its Series A Investment in Distil.

CE-Invests on its USD 50 million Series C investment in Flipspaces.

Infinx on its acquisition of Glidian, Inc. through a reverse triangular merger.

Jungle Ventures on its various investments in India, including in Showroom B2B, Kisaansay and a manufacturer of electronics for military systems, and its US$ 18 million investment in Waterfield Advisors.

Infinx Healthcare on its fund raise from KKR and Norwest Venture Partners (approx. USD 150 million).

Infinx Healthcare on its acquisition of Glidian Inc., a prior authorization platform designed to streamline the communication between healthcare providers and payers.

British International Investment and TDK Ventures on their investment in Fasal’s USD 12 Million Series A round.

Scimplify, a speciality chemical manufacturing company, on its fund raise from 3one4 Capital, Accel, Omnivore, Beenext and Bertelsmann.

MTR Foods, a food manufacturing company, on its downstream acquisitions in India.

Mistral Solutions, a defence manufacturing company, on its acquisition by Axiscades Engineering Technologies (approx USD 27.24 million).

Smile Electronics, a leading EMS manufacturing company, and its selling shareholders, on its acquisition by Zetwerk Manufacturing.

Kapiva Ayurveda, a leading aryurvedic manufacturing company, on its Series C fundraise of INR 200 crores led by OrbiMed and its existing investors.

Dot & Key, a premium skincare manufacturing brand, and its selling shareholders, on its acquisition by Nykaa.

Multiples Private Equity on its investment in MoEngage, a SAAS platform for customer management.

Samya.AI, an artificial intelligence-based revenue growth platform, and its selling shareholders, on the acquisition of Samya.AI by Fractal.AI.

Integration Wizards, a visual artificial intelligence company, on its acquisition by Sparkcognition Inc.

Clairvoyant, and its selling shareholders, on its acquisition by EXL.

Numberz, on sale of its substantial assets to ChargeBee Technologies.

BrightChamps, an edtech company, on its acquisition of Metamorphisis Edu.

CodeJudge on its acquisition by Skuad Inc.

Spendflo and its promoters on their USD 11 Million Series A fundraise.

Arkam Ventures on its investments in Jar, a financial savings app.

Bharat Innovation Fund on its various investments, including in A5G Networks, which offers an autonomous network infrastructure solutions for 4G and 5G networks, Terrabyte Technologies, and FireCompass.

Chiratae Ventures on its various investments in India, including in Local AI and Good Meetings.

Awards & Recognition

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings 2025 ‘Recommended Lawyer’ for Corporate and M&A and Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital) in India; and Leading Firms in Bengaluru.

The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Rankings 2024 ‘Key Lawyer’ for Corporate and M&A.

Individually named and recognized in the 2017 ‘RSG India Report’ for contributions in M&A and corporate law.

Memberships

Bar Council of Karnataka.

Media Mentions

30th Sep, 2025

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16th Sep, 2025

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25th Mar, 2025

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25th Feb, 2025

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Papers & Publications

08th Nov, 2023

Angel Tax and the (un)Ease of Doing Business in India

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